catchall mathis

[residentmerc]

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[residentmerc]

[ Coughs, Once, but he waves off mathis's concern ]

Aerith and I ended up near the pyre with a bunch of others. Fog surrounded us all of a sudden. What happened with you guys?

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Um... Lucas and I were here, but no one else came back before I went to sleep.

[nothing happened because they were Abandoned.]

Th-then after I woke up, there was... there was someone in...

[residentmerc]

... Someone?

[ at least he had lucas before he had a dead body, not that cloud knows that part ]

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I didn't recognize them.

[whomst the fuck.]

[residentmerc]

[ oh, well. he saw the poster before coming here, so: ]

... Might have been Death.

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Death-? Were they really...?

[residentmerc]

That's what the new posters on the noticeboard seem to be saying. [ a pause ] Aventurine, too.

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Monsieur Aventurine too...

[HOW. he quickly shakes his head.]

Are you certain-?

[residentmerc]

[ ok, well. ]

We found a hand. Pretty burnt up.

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J-just a hand-?!

[residentmerc]

Yeah. It looked like there'd been a fight, but the hand's all we got.

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Oh...

[well that's terrible!!]

I'm- I'm sorry.

[residentmerc]

You're the one who found a body.

[ he's fine??? mathis. ]

You gonna be okay?

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I'm... I'm all right. I've seen...

I've seen bodies before.

[residentmerc]

[ trying to not look shocked. failing a little. ]

... Alright. [ shakes his head ] Not sure what we're meant to do now.

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[yeah he doesn't blame cloud for being shocked, but he still looks down.]

...I don't know, either. I would say that we need to try to learn how they died, b-but we can't perform an autopsy without... corpses to examine.

[residentmerc]

We don't have those, and everything around got wiped clean, so we can't find what might've happened to them either.

[ does ff7 have autopsies I DON'T WANT TO THINK ABOUT IT ]

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I've... investigated deaths, before, but that was when I knew... I knew there was a murderer loose, and in a place I knew about.

There's so much that we just don't know, e-especially with magic.

[residentmerc]

... Well, you've got one up on me. Can't say I've ever investigated something like that.

[ he has investigated other things but ff7 has not had murder mysteries..........yet ]

There's a lot we don't know, and even more we can't account for, but we can't just sit here and do nothing either.